Posts by Oh la la...

Another day, another self-flying car pipe dream surfaces

That's all we need

Will a flying Audi also be designed to fly as close as possible to the flying car in front whilst flashing its headlights in an aggressive manner, before overtaking on the left??

Bros, in these taxing times, PC culture has had a major effect on HP

Wrong stock price

HPQ Stock price is currently $21.40, not $18.40 as mentioned in the article

NASA sends Mona Lisa into space by LASER

Seagulls

All this is fine of course, until something inadvertently flies through the laser beam...

NASA rover finds evidence of water flowing on Mars

They're out there

Unfortunate location of a line feed got me all excited there for a minute...

"NASA's famous robot rover Opportunity, still prowling the haematite steppes of the Meridiani Planum on Mars seven years after setting down, appears to have discovered concrete"

Graphene circuits from an inkjet printer

New Business Idea

Checklist:

One 3D printer

3 Graphene print cartridges

1 tin of white paint

I'll be up and running printing counterfeit iPhones by the end of the year. Orders anyone?

How to build your own Watson Jeopardy! supermachine

Maybe

Could it help answer those unanswerable 'wife' questions such as 'Which pair of shoes looks best with this dress?', 'Have I put on weight?', 'Does my bum look big in this?'

If so, it may just be worth the investment...

Google tests 'streaming' search engine

oh dear

So the next time I do a search for 'analytics' I'm going to be getting a call from IT and a registered letter from HR....

Google's reCAPTCHA busted by new attack

Doesn't this mean....

If the boffin has created a way of 'cracking' ReCaptcha's, surely this means that he actually come up with a better method of OCR which can understand all those words that current OCR techniques cannot.

Great! So, Google just need to use the algorithm when scanning books, and come up with a new method of distinguishing between humans and computers.